Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
    Unavailable
    Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
    Unavailable
    Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective
    Ebook436 pages4 hours

    Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective

    By scott crow and Kathleen Cleaver

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    Tracing a life of radical activism and the emergence of a grassroots organization in the face of disaster, this chronicle describes scott crow's headlong rush into the political storm surrounding the catastrophic failure of the levee in New Orleans in 2005 and the subsequent failure of state and local government agencies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. It recounts crow's efforts with others in the community to found Common Ground Collective, a grassroots relief organization that built medical clinics, set up food and water distribution, and created community gardens when local government agencies, FEMA, and the Red Cross were absent or ineffective. The members also stood alongside the beleaguered residents of New Orleans in resisting home demolitions, white militias, police brutality, and FEMA incompetence. This vivid, personal account maps the intersection of radical ideology with pragmatic action and chronicles a community's efforts to translate ideals into tangible results. This expanded second edition includes up-to-date interviews and discussions between crow and some of today's most articulate and influential activists and organizers on topics ranging from grassroots disaster relief efforts, both economic and environmental; dealing with infiltration, interrogation, and surveillance from the federal government; and a new photo section that vividly portrays scott's experiences as an anarchist, activist, and movement organizer in today's world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPM Press
    Release dateAug 1, 2014
    ISBN9781604869972

    Related to Black Flags and Windmills

    Related ebooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

      Dec 14, 2021

      Sometimes you just happen to be reading the right book—maybe it doesn't happen as often as you'd like, but when it happens oh my it happens. The post A Year in Reading: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore appeared first on The Millions.

      11 min read

    • Article

      An Anti-Racist Reading List

      Jun 4, 2020

      A list of recommended titles focused on the issues surrounding white supremacy and institutional racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, and anti-racist political activism. The post An Anti-Racist Reading List appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Radical Imagination

      Nov 17, 2021

      Radical Imagination
      5 min read

    • Article

      Jackie Wang: Carceral Capitalism

      Dec 10, 2018

      Jackie Wang is “a student of the dream state, black studies scholar, prison abolitionist, poet, performer, library rat, trauma monster, and PhD candidate at Harvard University.” 1 I was first introduced to her writing in 2012 when some prairie prison

      5 min read

    • Article

      'When They Call You a Terrorist': Patrisse Khan-Cullors discusses what's next for Black Lives Matter

      Jan 31, 2018

      Consider this passage from "When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele: In the city of Los Angeles, almost 50 percent of all homicides go unsolved and gang injunctions did absolutely nothing

      3 min read

    • Article

      Single-eyed Vision

      Nov 22, 2018

      "What is seen with one eye has no depth." I'm thinking, as I ponder the wisdom of Ursula LeGuin, that American culture is at the end of what it can accomplish with its single-eyed vision. For all our material progress, for all our ability to dominate

      3 min read

    • Article

      From Mukasonga to Alexievich, We Need Writers Who Bear Witness

      Apr 18, 2017

      “I’ve often said it was the genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsis in 1994 that made me a writer.” These are the words of author Scholastique Mukasonga, a Tutsi who lost 27 family members—including her mother and father—when Hutu throughout her nation murdered

      5 min read

    • Article

      Note EDITOR’S

      Oct 10, 2018

      FOR POETS AND WRITERS, BOTH AS CITIZENS AND AS PEOPLE with hearts that can break and minds that can imagine, a little reassurance can go a long way. We all need to know that what we’re doing is worthwhile, that our work is having an impact, that some

      2 min read

    • Article

      Note EDITOR’S

      Apr 12, 2017

      FOR POETS AND WRITERS, BOTH AS CITIZENS AND AS PEOPLE with hearts that can break and minds that can imagine, a little reassurance can go a long way. We all need to know that what we’re doing is worthwhile, that our work is having an impact, that some

      2 min read

    • Article

      Writers Bloc

      Jun 1, 2017

      We asked authors and artists to suggest books that bring solace and understanding in this age of political rancor. You can read their complete responses at motherjones.com/trump-reading.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Future Gender

      Dec 5, 2017

      Future Gender
      2 min read

    • Article

      Freedom of Thought

      Mar 4, 2019

      Oxford University Press, 220 pp., $18.95 REAL PRESIDENTS READ BOOKS. When the Library of Congress was destroyed in the War of 1812, the former president Thomas Jefferson offered his collection to replace it, commenting that “I do not know that it co

      4 min read

    Reviews for Black Flags and Windmills

    4/5

    2 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words